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Health Care Heroes 2021: Wendy Likes of UTHSC College of Nursing

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ean of the College of Nursing and professor, Ruth Neil Murry Endowed Chair in Nursing, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Here’s a simple truth: We need nurses. The pandemic has underlined how crucial the care is that nurses provide and highlighted how important it is to nurture the education of future nurses.… Read More


Exploring psychological resiliency of older adults with diabetes

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Studies suggest that exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with a variety of different mental health consequences including reports of depression, loneliness, and insomnia. People who are more than 65 years of age and those with underlying medical conditions such as type 2 diabetes and obesity are particularly vulnerable to negative outcomes from… Read More


Widow, UT work to honor Shelby County’s first COVID-19 victim

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When he was a kid growing up in North Memphis, Kenneth Bradshaw dreamed of becoming an architect, but he couldn’t afford college. So, after he graduated from Manassas High in the 1970s, he took a job as a carpenter’s assistant at the nearby University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Over the next 46 years, Bradshaw… Read More


Memphis Art Installation Could Save Lives

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A outdoor public art installation in the medical district is creating a powerful visual image of the number of pedestrians killed on the streets of Memphis last year. Local artist Colin Kidder created the artwork called ‘Naming”. The 3D art is made of colorful crosswalk cutouts and represents the 69 people who died in pedestrian accidents.


UT Health Sciences Launches Health Hub

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Providing better access to healthcare while getting the tools and the support to live a healthier life can be found all in one place here in the Mid-South. The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center has just opened a health hub in Memphis’ Uptown neighborhood. It’s on North Second Street and will offer one stop… Read More


Health Care Heroes 2021: Cyrilyn Walters of Regional One Health/UTHSC

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Mdical director, Ambulatory Services, Regional One Health; Assistant professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center The desire to be a doctor began early for Cyrilyn Walters. “As a young child, I dealt with the unexpected deaths of close family members, which started my interest in the medical field. The health care setting was very unfamiliar to… Read More


U.S. Government Refutes Methodist ‘Rhetoric,’ Justifies Intervention in Lawsuit

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The federal government, in a recent court filing, says it has significant justification to intervene in the case against Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and does not have to prove cause. The lawsuit against Methodist, initially filed in 2017, claimed that Methodist and West Cancer executives conspired in an alleged scheme that cost Medicare and Medicaid… Read More


UTHSC’s Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, Authors First Comprehensive Textbook on Prediabetes

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Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, DSc, chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has written the first comprehensive textbook on prediabetes. Titled “Prediabetes: A Fundamental Text,” the book was published by the American Diabetes Association on July 27, and sold out that day.